Well,well,well… Look Who’s Been Arrested For Terrorism, Ties To ISIS

Be careful what individuals and causes you endorse. Taking back an endorsement is a tough thing to do, and damages the reputation of the institution that originally made it.

Hesham Shashaa, an Imam who was something of a hero to the New York Times, has now been discovered to have a background of wife beating and terrorism. Apparently the Times is now going to learn this lesson the hard way.

It turns out that this Hesham Shashaa guy is one very dangerous and violent man, and is anything but an example of peaceful or “pacifist” Islam as the Times purported. “Spanish authorities have arrested a Muslim cleric — whom the New York Times once praised for his efforts to fight radicalization within Germany’s Islamic community — for alleged ties to the Islamic State.”

His connection to the Islamic State is enough to reject any belief that this Muslim is a man of peace. Yet there’s more.

“Several months after the New York Times published its hagiography of Shashaa, he was arrested for physically assaulting his third wife, who was hospitalized with a broken nose and shoulder. ‘The attack was obviously very brutal,’ a hospital spokesperson said at the time.”

What could prompt such a violent episode from her husband? Simple. As she told police, “she had wanted to live a more Western lifestyle; she wanted to find a job and stop wearing the hijab.”